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Ngl I’d be down with you just explaining the lore of Dune cuz those first 19 mins about the history of the bene gesserit was honestly peak

I remember reading an article in Deadline about studio executives MANDATING writers to DUMB DOWN dialogue in order to account for "second screens" -- meaning they think that the majority of viewers are also on their phones, so they need their hands held so they won't get lost... 😬

"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." - Paul Atreides
HBO apparently controls Dune.

GOD I am so tired of this trend of lazily written TV series that spend their entire runtime TALKING DOWN to the audience. I was so excited for this show, what a let down.

10/10 would absolutely listen to you explain Dune lore for hours. Ngl.

It's not the writers thinking the audience is stupid. It's the executives telling them that the audience is on their phones.

I didn't know that it was originally being directed by Denis Villeneuve and now I'm retroactively dissapointed at how mind blowing it could've actually been, damn

Perfectly cast actors in perfectly recreated sets...standing around and reading the lore and character bios to the audience is apparently how you make an adaptation, according to Dune Prophecy, Percy Jackson and Netflix’s last airbender
🙄

HBO looked at Game of Thrones Season 8 and went like, hey can you speed run it?

"Warner Bros. didn't like--"

God, it's always Warner, isn't it? I'm amazed that they didn't cave in and write this show off for tax reasons.

When you said a lot of people watched it, I was surprised because I haven't heard literally anybody talking about it.

My issue with the show is that so much happens, but nothing actually happens? Just cliffhanger after cliffhanger.  The season could have easily been stretched over 23 episodes with concepts being naturally addressed with plenty of time to let them breathe and develop. Instead, everyone is sprinting and weaving around each other to make it DRAMATIC.  Conflicts should be developed to pay off 5 seasons from now, not 5 minutes from now.

The worst parts of 'Game of Thrones' meets the worst parts of Disney 'Star Wars.'

And now Netflix wants character to explain EXACTLY what they’re doing for people that are passively watching. TV is so cooked and its getting real depressing

I feel like this whole dumbing media down for audiences and choosing telling over showing again and again and again, is a growing epidemic.
Producers keep underestimating audiences to a point where people actually stop applying critical thinking, and I HATE it

What is with this new trend of shows just having the entire plot explained within the dialogue? I get exposition but when every line is just literally describing what is happening on screen it gets to be absurd. If these studios want to recreate the success of GoT, they should try and remember the early seasons had immaculate dialogue.

A new Space Ninja video, just as the Dune Prophecy foretold

For such a disciplined sisterhood, they sure were melodramatic and catty in the show. So much overexplanation. So much cliche and flashy fight scenes. The club and sex scenes were obnoxious.